When I first went to GopherCon with Twitch two years ago, the Go language had already changed the way I write software. Twitch’s chat server and numerous internal systems were running with Go in production, and the convention was a great way to meet other people who were…
We use Go at Twitch for many of our busiest systems. Its simplicity, safety, performance, and readability make it a good tool for the problems we encounter with serving live video and chat to our millions of users.